But he says that he wants to have an answer before you go." "I did answer him, papa." "Yes,--you refused him.

But he hopes that perhaps you may think better of it.

He has been with me and I have told him that if he will come to-morrow you will see him.

He is to be here after dinner and you had better just take him up-stairs and hear what he has to say.
If you can make up your mind to like him you will please all your family.

But if you can't,--I won't quarrel with you, my dear." "Oh papa, you are always so good." "Of course I am anxious that you should have a home of your own;--but let it be how it may I will not quarrel with my child." All that evening, and almost all the night, and again on the following morning Mary turned it over in her mind.